Thursday, May 15, 2008

The most unread books according to some.

The Incurable Insomniac wrote: "What we have here: the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish."

I found a lot of my favorite books on this list! Others that I wouldn't read if they were the only books in the house.

Jonathan Strange & Mr NorrellAnna KareninaCrime and PunishmentCatch-22One Hundred Years of SolitudeWuthering HeightsThe SilmarillionLife of Pi: a novelThe Name of the RoseDon QuixoteMoby DickUlyssesMadame BovaryThe OdysseyPride and PrejudiceJane EyreThe Tale of Two CitiesThe Brothers KaramazovGuns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societiesWar and PeaceVanity FairThe Time Traveler’s WifeThe IliadEmmaThe Blind AssassinThe Kite RunnerMrs. DallowayGreat ExpectationsAmerican GodsA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering GeniusAtlas ShruggedReading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in booksMemoirs of a GeishaMiddlesexQuicksilverWicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the WestThe Canterbury TalesThe Historian: a novelA Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManLove in the Time of CholeraBrave New WorldThe FountainheadFoucault’s PendulumMiddlemarchFrankensteinThe Count of Monte CristoDraculaA Clockwork OrangeAnansi BoysThe Once and Future KingThe Grapes of WrathThe Poisonwood Bible : a novel1984Angels & DemonsThe Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)The Satanic VersesSense and SensibilityThe Picture of Dorian GrayMansfield ParkOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestTo the LighthouseTess of the D'UrbervillesOliver TwistGulliver’s TravelsLes MisérablesThe CorrectionsThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and ClayThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-TimeDuneThe PrinceThe Sound and the FuryAngela's Ashes: a memoirThe God of Small ThingsA People's History of the United States: 1492-presentCryptonomiconNeverwhereA Confederacy of DuncesA Short History of Nearly EverythingDublinersThe Unbearable Lightness of BeingBelovedSlaughterhouse-FiveThe Scarlet LetterEats, Shoots & LeavesThe Mists of AvalonOryx and Crake: a novelCollapse: how societies choose to fail or succeedCloud AtlasThe ConfusionLolitaPersuasionNorthanger AbbeyThe Catcher in the RyeOn the RoadThe Hunchback of Notre DameFreakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everythingZen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenanceThe AeneidWatership DownGravity's RainbowThe HobbitIn Cold Blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequencesWhite TeethTreasure IslandDavid CopperfieldThe Three Musketeers

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